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...were publicly vocal in their support for education reform. Conant received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1957 to study American public high schools through “searching examination, city by city and town by town” over two years to see whether gifted children were adequately pushed to strive for higher education...
...freshman housing lottery used punchcards and five separate programs to put first-years in their preferred residences in only 13.9 seconds. This move stirred fears of bias toward alumni children and athletes, and the card-sorting process was overseen by two students to “check everything themselves, if they wish,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman...
...attended public schools with children of factory workers in Corning before moving to Concord, N.H. at age 14 to attend St. Paul’s School...
...said. “I didn’t become an activist as a result of reading the right books. I just thought, ‘My god, both these cities are in the same country, but in one school system [in Roxbury], the children are shortchanged in every possible way you can imagine...
...Kozol translated his early teaching experiences into “Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools,” his first book of non-fiction. Its selection for the National Book Award in 1968 “unfortunately propelled me into a public role, which I had never wanted,” he said...